The New Yorker

The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...
insider.si.edu

Colonial British America essays in the new history of the early modern era edited by Jack P. Greene and J.R. Pole

Reconstructing British-American colonial history : an introduction / Jack P. Greene and J.R. Pole -- The transatlantic economy / Jacob M. Price -- The domestic economy / Richard B. Sheridan -- Spatial ...
The Conversation

How Igbo women used petitions to influence British authorities during colonial rule

Leaders of the Aba women’s protest against a tyranical warrant chief in Nigeria in 1929. National Museum of Unity, Nigeria Selected petitions and written correspondence between Igbo women and British ...
Reuters

'Good or bad, it’s Hong Kong history' says British colonial museum founder

HONG KONG, June 21 (Reuters) - Bryan Ong has made it his mission to preserve items that tell the story of Hong Kong's British colonial past even as Beijing increasingly shapes life in the city that is ...
The Conversation

British king acknowledges colonial atrocities in Kenya – here’s what could happen next

King Charles III (L) and The President of the Republic of Kenya William Ruto (R). Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage/GettyImages On his official visit to Kenya, King ...